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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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